| eir are delighted to sponsor the 2016 Dalkey Book Festival.
Here Yanis Varoufakis speaks to David McWilliams about the loan agreement discussions. You can hear the full podcast at http://www.dalkeybookfestival.org/podcast-yanis-varoufakis-conversation/ Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former Minister of Finance, is amongst the most relevant political figures in Europe today. He is also one of Europe’s best selling non-fiction authors, as well as Professor of Economics in Athens and an unforgiving public intellectual. Any man who delightfully quotes Dylan Thomas at EU meetings is This year audiences can be inspired by 65 events, over four days, in one exceptional setting, with Malcolm Gladwell, Brian Eno, Elif Shafak, Dambisa Moyo, Bob Geldof and some of Ireland’s best established writers like John Banville, Kevin Barry and Donal Ryan and newer voices of Danielle McLaughlin, Jan Carson and Frankie Gaffney. There’s something for everyone with literature, ideas, comedy, world affairs, theatre, film, history, medicine, politics and poetry as well as family events, free storytelling, a Book Clinic, free cookery demos, all in a vibrant town packed with pubs, cafes, and restaurants, including a pop up boutique eatery by the sea in Dillon’s Park: eat well, drink well, think well! Feed your brain! This year’s theme of migration, dislocation and exile will be explored by Irish writers and the finest minds from India, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, New Zealand, the UK, the US and Zambia. From the sense of exile in Neel Mukherjee’s and Elif Shafak’s writing and Shazia Mirza’s comedy, to the history of migration and The Silk Roads of the East with Peter Frankopan and of course the humanitarian crisis of refugees fleeing Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Janine di Giovanni and Joris Luyendijk. Tune into the blog at http://www.dalkeybookfestival.org/blog and see the full lineup at http://www.dalkeybookfestival.org/events-at-a-glance/ Follow online: Tweets by dalkeybookfest |
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